Quilled Cards

September 5th is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India to honor Dr. Radhakrishnan's birthday! Here are special cards, my kids  made for teacher's day with a little help.

Quilled Rakhi

Yesterday was Rakshbandan! My daughter made this very simple quilled rakhi.

Perler Sunday!

Today had a great time with kids doing some paintings and perler beads. My daughter loves butterflies and she has made a few of them. Today she made this one which I loved. I enjoyed that boys think so much different making cricket bat, ball and stump out of these perler beads and playing a game with those too (Sorry.. for the pics of boyish stuff. they were so cute but before I could manage to take a few clicks, they were played well with). Anyway, it was a day well spent! 

Hexafish Ring

Here is a cute ring - a hexafish rainbow loom ring, specially made for me. Isn't it cute! 3 colors - yellow, orange and red make a wonderful combination.

Making this style ring or bracelet using 2 or 3 different colors looks great!

Pongal Kolam and A Special Rainbow Kolam

Any festival is celebrated with lots of colored elaborate and decorative pattern drawings at the entrance of the home.Today is pongal and hence calls for even more special decorations. Happy Pongal!

The below kolam can be drawn with the help of dots or straight drawing lines. It can be drawn  small with a plus sign to as big as you can by drawing lines on each side of the plus sign. I drew 5 lines on each side of the plus , used a curved petal shaped ending for the red color and finished this by coloring it in rainbow colors to celebrate Pongal and also to welcome Spring.

Watching me coloring the rangoli, my kids wanted to enjoy their share. Here is their fun - it may and need not be very perfect but having fun and creativity are more important.

Simple Halloween Puppet!

Happy Halloween! It is the time to decorate your home spookily and tell your kids some spooky stories. You can use small puppets for the stories, or kids can make and use these puppets for their story to have some extra fun. Also you can make it in bigger size and stick init on windows or wall or hang them too. All you need is a few popsicle sticks, glue or glue sticks, tape, construction paper and some imagination. Draw spooky characters and stick them on to your popsicle stick. You have an instant puppet.

Kids can make similar puppets for ant kind of themes and characters and have loads of fun.

3D Quilled Diya!

Happy Diwali to everyone! In the midst of rain, we had a wonderful Diwali celebration. My kids were sad when they were unable to go out. So they enjoyed sometime with quilling and watching TV. Here is my daughter's 3D quilled diya and they also made a special card for me.

Rainbow quilled diya!

Top view of the diya:

The same with embellishment:

Quilled Diwali Card

Here is the special quilled card made by my daughter for me for Diwali. There is always to measure for your happiness when kids spend their time and make something special! - nice quilled flowers and diyas.....wonderful creations! Aren't they cute?